Q & A Series:

How is
Jesus the ‘Root & ‘Offspring’ of David?

By
Craig Bluemel

I am sending this to you
and wondered if you had anything you might add to or take away from it.I did my own study on this and wondered if
you had any info that would help to show Jesus as man is the root and offspring
of David.I was thinking maybe you had
some tools that I might not have to even make this clearer.I have not seen anything on your site concerning
this subject.

Hope your doing well.
God bless you my brother.

Steve

Craig’s Answer:

Hi Steve,

From my many studies
involving the messianic, prophetic relationship between David and Jesus, I
discovered that from the very first time Yahweh gave him the prophetic promise
concerning his ‘descendent’ David understood this to mean a ‘spiritual’ and future
descendent, not a literal blood and relative descendent.The same holds true with the building opf
the Temple; David knew from the onset, that Yahweh cannot be found in buildings
that men’s hands construct.I would
probably describe root and offspring as follows:

“Root” of David = the
root of what David believed concerning Jesus as his promised, future
‘descendent, who would ascend the TRUE throne (not an earthly throne), seeing
that David wrote the psalm that says, “The Lord (Yahweh) said to MY (David’s
future Lord) Lord, sit here at My (Yahweh’s) right hand, until…”

i.e.
the ‘root’ of David meaning therefore that Jesus is what David initially
envisioned when he was given Yahweh’s promise concerning his ‘descendent’

“Offspring” of David =
Not as flesh & blood relation, but Jesus the man, once resurrected, then
glorified, as glorified MAN becomes the first and the authoritative ‘shoot’ or
‘offspring’ of David’s spiritual ‘descendents.’In other words, ‘offspring’ refers to the actual fulfillment of the
promise, whereas ‘root’ refers to that which David envisioned in his spirit
concerning the man that Yahweh would raise up in the future, to rule in
righteousness forever.

That’s the quick answer.
For more in-depth study, here are links to other studies that I’ve done on this
topic: